Take it to the Trees

17/03/2026

I love tritype - the enneagram theory that suggests we have three survival strategies- one each inhead heart and gut. For me it’s a way to really appreciate that often a person has three strategies vying for attention… Im coming to see them like Russian stacking dolls. Sometimes they are nested and coherent. Other times they are all out and doing a clumsy dance!

Last week I had a really interesting conversation with Anna about our differences - she is 684sx I am 648so.

I write about Tritype in correspondence with Tree scapes. This is the piece that came out about Oak.

You can read the piece by hopping over to my substack - the link is in my bio 🌳💚-I would love to know what you make of it and of course if you would like to explore your own patterns, check out my current offerings at the soul shed.

24/01/2026

It is mid-January and a mixture of icy clear sunny days, sideways sleeting rain, and bleak fog. The festivals of light are behind us and here in South England it feels more wintery than it did before they lay ahead of us. With this moon I hope to bring you some hope, in the form of another very seasonal tree. I hope to bring you something of the spirit of Holly.

Link in the comments…

05/01/2026

04/01/2026

Let’s bring good things to it.

04/01/2026

Coming next in this treetype series… a post about Holly a wonderful tree for wintering with.

For all these posts, exploring the enneagram with treescapes, you might like to take a look at my substack. You can simply visit, or it is free to subscribe to my content. Link in my bio.

14/12/2025

We’ve crossed the threshold into Winter, here in the northern hemisphere. And when orienting towards a tree-scape for this next post in this tritype series, all my inner paths seemed to lead south and east – to the Mediterranean region1 and to its ancient olive groves.

The olive tree is a being of wonder. Read the post on my substack - link in bio

05/12/2025

Peace on earth and goodwill to humankind.

Exploring with Olive as we step into the darkest time of year and seek the light in it. Coming son on my Substack - have you hopped over to see it recently? Link in my bio.

01/11/2025

From our walk today which was a conversation between Oak and Willow.

A brilliant photograph without AI intervention just camera weirdness! - Roz bursting out of her skin as spirit of Oak and Tania appearing mesmerised and slightly startled as spirit of Wilow!

And actual willow and Oak in the field at Holt Pound.

same actual oak in both pics!

01/11/2025

A soul shed creative walk in the woods

01/11/2025

A conversation between Oak and Willow at Alice Holt today!The latest in a series of Creative walks in the woods from The Soul Shed

01/10/2025

Entering a birch grove can feel magical. These slender trees strike wavy lines against the sky, and are often the first species to populate new landscape. Like pines they are fast growing pioneers. Their lives are short in tree terms – a pine lives fast, losing branches as it reaches for the sky. Where the branches fall, scars form, often creating the characteristic and often very expressive eyes, along the trunk, which can offer us wonderful places to imagine into.

please visit my Substack, link bio for the rest of this piece exploring enneagram 147 And Birch